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Title: The Servant : A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership by James C. Hunter ISBN: 0-7615-1369-8 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Spend a life developing others!
Comment: This book is a lesson in maturity. John Daily is sent by his psychologist wife to a seminar at a monestery as a last ditch effort to get a grip on his life. The reader is allowed to reflect on the experiences there that bring him to the notion of true leadership- - - Developing others. Developing others is a selfless task, turned into a way of life. John first learns he must give up his ego, then how to encourage, reward, and coach others to be the most they can be. He leaves the seminar believing he has shortchanged all the people in his life and is motivated to make it up to them. He has a new inner voice to follow, and can once again think out of the box. The book does have some religious overtones, but they are very subtle. Whatever your role in life, this book can make a difference for you. It is the type of book that can be re-read at a different point in your life and bring new awareness to an old problem.
If you are involved in motivating individuals at work, at home, school or in any community setting, this is the book for you.
Rating: 4
Summary: A must read for leaders that want to do it the right way!
Comment: This is a fabulous book that I found myself unable to put down. I started reading it about 8 pm one night and stayed up until I was finished (about 1 am). I have read many business books in the past and have set through a great number of courses on leadership. The Servant, by James C. Hunter, summed up all of them in 187 pages.
This is a fictional story of a manager that goes on a weeklong leadership retreat. He has been successful but is finding his life not what it should be. His marriage is suffering, his relationships with his children are suffering, his relationships with his employees is strained. So he allows himself to go on a retreat in which he doesn't see himself learning a great deal on.
But that is where he is wrong. The majority of the book is focused on what he did learn. Through a fictional teacher and fictional leadership seminar, James Hunter takes us all on a journey of self discovery. He breaks down leadership to its most basic characteristics, much to the reader's surprise.
It is a well written book that I immediately bought several more copies of to give as gifts to some of my closest friends.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you humble yourself, the book can teach you something
Comment: I read through all the reviews. It seems to me that there are some who had benefited quite a lot from reading this book and then there are those who don't.
I would just say this: This is a good book. It's built upon sound principles. If you allow yourself to be taught by it, you would gain from it. But if you take on the attitude of "I have read tons of leadership books, you better impress me in less than two paragraphs or else..." Well, we all know what the outcome would be. The principle of humility and the willingness to be taught is mentioned also in the book.
The most important thing is, now that you know the principles, go practice immediately or else you never really gain anything.
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Title: The Servant Leader: How to Build a Creative Team, Develop Great Morale, and Improve Bottom-Line Performance by JAMES A. AUTRY ISBN: 0761535357 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Servant Leader : by Ken Blanchard ISBN: 0849996597 Publisher: J Countryman Books Pub. Date: 13 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness by Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears, Stephen R. Covey ISBN: 0809105543 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Leadership Challenge, 3rd Edition by James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner ISBN: 0787968331 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 25 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle : How to Become a Servant Leader by JAMES C. HUNTER ISBN: 140005334X Publisher: Crown Business Pub. Date: 22 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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